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Food Ethics

Firing Up the Grill? Why It’s So Hard to Give Up Meat

July 17, 2022

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COVID-19

BU’s Nahid Bhadelia Joins White House COVID Response Team

July 13, 2022

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Alzheimer’s Disease

Could a Computer Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia?

July 7, 2022

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Reproductive Rights

POV: End of Roe v. Wade and Right to Abortion Will Impact Research, Says ENG Professor

July 6, 2022

Photo of Ukrainian refugees awaiting entry into the US. They sit and lay on blankets on a patch of grass. Many wearing sweatshirts and jeans and look away from the camera towards a gray tent and wall. The refugees sit amongst their suitcases and there is a mix of families and groups of young people.

Refugees

America the Miserly: How Our Refugee System Fails Desperate People

June 27, 2022

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Antiracism

Data Gaps for Race and Ethnicity Are Holding Back Antiracism Efforts, New Report Says

June 22, 2022

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Technology Development

BU Ignition Awards–From the Lab to Your Life

June 6, 2022

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Heart Health

The Quest for a Heart Attack Cure

May 31, 2022

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Monkeypox

How Worried Should We Be about Monkeypox?

May 25, 2022

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CTE in Sports

8 Major Findings and Headlines from BU CTE Researchers in the Past Year

May 24, 2022

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Antibiotic Resistance

Can We Prevent Antibiotic Resistance?

May 19, 2022

Photograph of the constellation Taurus made by the avid astrophotographer Akira Fujii. In the photo, tiny white dots, stars, fill the image, with a brighter, reddish dot towards the bottom right, which is Taurus.

Space Science

Seeing through the Fog—Pinpointing Young Stars and Their Protoplanetary Disks

May 16, 2022

Photo of three American flags at the base of the Washington Monument flying at half staff. President Biden ordered flags to fly at half-mast through next Monday as the nation passes the 1 million mark of COVID deaths. The sky in the background is cloudy and gray, and the top of the white, capital building is seen in the background at bottom.

COVID-19 Deaths

COVID-19 Death Toll Could Be 20 Percent Higher than Official Tally

May 13, 2022

Boston University Professor of Engineering, Xin Zhang, poses for a portrait in her lab.

Accolades

Engineer Xin Zhang Awarded 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

May 10, 2022

Photo of a person wearing lavender medical gloves using a small white stick to hold up a small, jelly-like circle that is pink in color from a small glass dish. Presumably this is one of what satellite bio calls "tissue therapeutics."

Technology Development

Biotech Developing “Tissue Therapeutics” to Treat Diseased Organs Launches from BU and MIT Labs

May 6, 2022

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Cognitive Health

Living Near Greenery Could Give You a Brain Boost—and Reduce Dementia Risk

May 4, 2022

Photo of Florian Douam (left) assistant professor, microbiology, and Devin Kenney, a PhD student, posing for a photo at National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. The both wear white lab coats and stand facing each other with their bodies and heads tilted towards the camera in front of a purple-blue wall. Lab shelves can be seen on either side of them.

COVID-19

Why Do Some People Get Sicker Than Others from COVID?

April 29, 2022

Photo of Christos Michas, a white man with short brown hair, wears purple medical gloves and holds a miniaturized cardiac ventricular pump (or, a mini heart pump) with a pair of tweezers. The pump looks like a small piece of plastic. Michas is seen blurred in the background and the pump and his hands are in focus.

Heart Health

New Miniature Heart Could Help Speed Heart Disease Cures

April 22, 2022

Photo of Lead researcher Manish Bais. A South Asian man wearing a blue collared shirt, blue tie, and white medical coat, sits in a chair in a research lab. He is turned and smiling towards the camera and sits in front of a large microscope.

Oral Cancer

Could Blocking or Deleting a Protein Help Prevent Common Oral Cancers?

April 21, 2022

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Job Burnout

Work Burnout Signs: What to Look for and What to Do about It

April 14, 2022

Work Burnout Signs: What to Look for and What to Do about It